MuMe2019 Keynote speakers announced
We are very excited to present conference keynote speakers
Prof Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
and
Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine.
Prof Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Professor Emerita of Performance
Studies at New York University and Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition
at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her books include
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image before My
Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with
Lucjan Dobroszycki); They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a
Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer
Kirshenblatt), winner of two book awards, The Art of Being Jewish in
Modern Times (with Jonathan Karp), and Anne Frank Unbound: Media,
Imagination, Memory (with Jeffrey Shandler), among others.
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Dr
Silke Arnold-de Simine is Reader in the Department of Film, Media and
Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research is
located at the interface of museum, memory and media studies with a
special interest in collective processes of remembering and
commemorating difficult pasts and dissonant heritage and their ethical,
political, psychological and aesthetic implications. In her monograph,
Mediating Memory in the Museum. Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia (2013), she
probes the shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the
transformation of history museums and heritage sites into ‘spaces of
memory’ with a particular emphasis on the role of different media and
art forms in that process. In 2018 her co-edited volume Picturing the
Family: Media, Narrative, Memory has been published with Bloomsbury.
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